Arature

Those moments when you catch yourself surviving.

[strandbooks]

Another gorgeous work of Strand art by @newyorkermag illustrator @jkroik, who will be joining us for a FREE sketch and read, Sunday 2-4 pm in the Rare Book Room! 🔗 in bio! #fanartfriday (at Strand Book Store)

[disminucion]

[bibliolectors]

Noche de lluvia y tormenta, perfecta para estar bien calentita dentro de la cama con un buen libro y… preparados para soñar (ilustración de Eugene Smolenceva)

[lifemaniac91]

[just0nemorepage]

Love & Gelato || Jenna Evans Welch || 389 pages -------------------------------------------------- Top 3 Genres: Young Adult / Contemporary / Romance

Synopsis: Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.

But then she is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more.

Publication Date: May 2016. / Average Rating: 4.11. / Number of Ratings: 28,200~.

[fallingforbooks]

[bookaddict24-7]

The story is truly finished–and meaning is made–not when the author adds the last period, but when the reader enters.

Celeste Ng (via bookaddict24-7)

[rainy-autumn-day]

[americasgreatoutdoors]

Guadalupe Mountains National Park has the four highest peaks in Texas, an ancient fossil reef, desert, dunes, canyons, wildlife and a touch of fall color. In McKittrick Canyon, the maples put on a show this autumn. With lots of trails for hiking and horseback riding, you’ll find the perfect place for your fall pictures. Photo by National Park Service volunteers.

[goldwerger]

The point of reading isn’t to memorize, and it’s certainly not to critique. It’s to absorb and filter with an open mind—to find the right thing at the right time so that you can improve and update your existing model of reality rather than mold whatever you’re reading to fit into it as it is.

There are two ways to read, but one is useless - https://qz.com/1303124/there-are-two-ways-to-read-but-one-is-useless/

[allthingseurope]

Strasbourg, France (by Jennifer Noesser)

[gwinny5k]

The worst trick a childhood anxiety disorder pulls is, you spend your early years being applauded for being so much more mature than your peers, because you aren’t disruptive, you don’t want any kind of attention, you don’t express yourself, you keep yourself to yourself - this makes you a pleasure to have in class, etc etc - and you start to believe it’s virtue. But you’re actually way behind your peers in normal social development, and who knows if you can ever catch up.

[deliciousstomach-deactivated202]

Never heard a truer thing in my life.

[bogleech]

holy shit wait you mean being just morbidly terrified of doing anything wrong ISN’T necessarily the same as being “well behaved?!”

[themuditaendeavour]

Convenient children =/= healthy children

[absolutely-walnuts]

Convenient children do not equal healthy children

[justlittlethings]

[the-perfect-aesthetic]

[vladtheunfollower]

women have a hard time refusing a coffee order that someone got wrong because they don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings and people are surprised that we get manipulated during the very vulnerable and threatening atmosphere of sex with men

[minuty]

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

rumi (via minuty)

[rainypd]

Me: I want compliments and attention Someone: * gives me compliments and attention* Me: *trembling slightly* what the hell